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      Pearson

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      3.5

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (7,746 total reviews)
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      Omar Abbosh

      56% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.0

      Senior management

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,746 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pearson employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      8K reviews
      2.0
      Apr 25, 2017

      Run by a souless corporation, constant layoffs

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Great people to work with, flexible work conditions

      Cons

      Ran by a souless corporation that cares more about stock holders than it's employees. Constant layoffs and restructuring. Poor salaries way below industry standard. Expects current employees to take on multiple roles during layoffs with same pay. Company is in a downward spiral. Senior management treats it's employees like cattle.

      1.0
      Sep 20, 2016

      Arrogant and uneducated management

      Instructional designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Interesting people, especially at the lower levels. Good experience working on large, cumbersome teams. Learning opportunities are made available, but no one has any time to take advantage of them.

      Cons

      Management is generally, untrained and not too bright. The smarter employees leave. The Pearson management style is made up of blind spots, passing the buck, shirked responsibility, and pseudo-management. My manager was very nice but as ineffective as you can imagine. Giggled a lot. High-school level typos and spoke with a lack of basic grammar knowledge. She didn't respond to problems, took no action when support was needed.

      2.0
      Mar 15, 2016

      Courseware developer

      Courseware and media developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent benefits offered (vacation, health insurance, etc.) Interesting coworkers.

      Cons

      Multiple rounds of layoffs in the past few years as the upper management reorgs and reorgs again. It's a time of disruption and upheaval in publishing, but Pearson in particular has managed itself poorly. It laid off the people actually responsible for some very profitable and well regarded products in the US in 2016 while the execs who totally missed on their growth projections for 2015 remain in their jobs. (Pearson made over a billion US in profit in 2015, but was 25% off its forecast for growth -- hence the stated reason for layoffs.) It wants to be a software company, but doesn't seem willing to actually spend up front what is necessary for enough good tech staff to make that happen.

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